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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
pre-junta Chile had a legitimately elected government?
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Yes. Not even Spanky is disputing Allende's legitimacy. He just seems to think it's OK to overthrow a legitimately elected government to install a junta if that junta is going to manage the economy better.
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And didn't we just pick a side? And subjectively, didn't we have to back then? I mean, I know you and Jimmy Carter and them all realized the USSR was benign, but Nixon couldn't see that and he had the keys.
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As I noted yesterday, Nixon's National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, observed that Chile was a dagger pointed at the heart of Antartica.
Besides, had we supported Allende, then he would have been our guy, right?
I'm not impressed by the way you guys are conflated Allende's socialism with global communism. I understand that anything to the left of Ohio starts to look the same, but Allende was no Castro.
